-=jd=- wrote:




No, I think dxAce had it more right than not. Last I heard,
Arafat was brain-dead, comatose, on life-support - noticeably
more dead than alive. The only thing stopping them from
preparing the body for burial would be unplugging a machine or
two.

They didn't have to take him all the way to Paris to find out he is
brain dead, he's been brain dead for years.